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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by ekianjo on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:24PM (#23983273)
> Try it. there is not much to lose.

And since you can't really measure things well with n=1 you end up with confirmation bias at the end of the day.

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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by fsloth on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:32PM (#23983309)
Confirmation bias or actual personal discovery.

I don’t see what is so controversial about this. Lots of people take up exercising as a lifestyle and say they are much better for it. I don’t see what saying ‘yes but there is only one you, maybe you would have felt better without the exercise in this span if time...’ - which means statistics 101 really is not blindly applicable to all venues life. Also why bayesian statistics are sometimes much better in real life situations...

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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by ekianjo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:15PM (#23991684)
> Confirmation bias or actual personal discovery.

And you would not be able to actually figure out which one it is.

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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by spaetzleesser on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:35PM (#23983326)
Do you constantly measure your friendships or family? Most things in life go by instinct or how they make us feel.
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